Excerpt from Annals of Portsmouth: Comprising a Period of Two Hundred Years From the First Settlement of the Town; With Biographical Sketches of a Few of the Most Respectable InhabitantsRegretted, that there are no records of the town prior to the year 1652. Mr. Alden's account of the religious societies in Portsmouth, has been of essen tial service to me. These have been the principal sources, from which I have obtained the information contained in the following annals.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.